The following computer-generated description may contain errors and does not represent the quality of the book:Ikrk Woman rkigns ;the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Montoomert. The artist who would embody the sublime ideal which has long engrossed his spiritual contemplation the idol of his ceaseless adoration, the imaginary impersonation of his most exalted conceptions of the Beautiful again and again shrinks dismayed, despair-ing, from the impossible achievement he would faia essay. Thus does the biographer, whose best qualification for the task too partial friendship has assigned her, is profound reverence for the theme, approach the awe-inspiring subject of the following Memoir. The life of woman, almost in proportion as it is true to the loftiest impulses and purest principles by which she can be actuated, presents comparatively few incidents claiming circumstantial record or remembrance.